Opsware

In Sik Rhee has co-founded 2 successful startup companies and has developed technologies across a wide spectrum of domain knowledge – from end-user packaged software to high-end mission critical enterprise systems. In Sik self-taught software programming at the age of 12 and began developing... commercial software as a 19-year old. In Sik was most recently a co-founder and Chief Tactician at Opsware, formerly Loudcloud. There he played a diverse role - such as identifying and spearheading M&A projects, establishing new sales channels and regions, and highlighting new product opportunities by keeping abreast of emerging technology trends and categories in the enterprise market. Opsware was acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.6B in 2007. Prior to Loudcloud/Opsware, In Sik co-founded Kiva Software Corporation, a pioneer of the J2EE Application Server market. There he architected and developed one of industry's first Java application servers, deployed by customers such as E*Trade and Bank of America. Kiva was acquired by Netscape Communications in 1997, and its product has evolved to become the Sun ONE Application Server. Prior to Kiva, In Sik was a Senior Software Engineer at Lotus Development Corporation, where he developed several versions of the Approach end-user database product for the Windows platform. In Sik holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Young Leader Award.
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Ben Horowitz is a high technology entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for co-founding and running the enterprise software company Opsware. In July 2007, Horowitz sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in cash. In June 2009, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen co-founded the venture... capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in Menlo Park, CA. In September 1999, Horowitz cofounded Loudcloud with Marc Andreessen, Tim Howes, and Insik Rhee. Loudcloud offered infrastructure and application hosting services to enterprise and Internet customers such as Ford Motor Company, Nike, Inc., Gannett Company, News Corporation, the United States Army and other large organizations. Horowitz took Loudcloud public on March 9, 2001. In June 2002, Horowitz began a dramatic transformation of Loudcloud into Opsware, an enterprise software company. He took the first step by selling Loudcloud's core managed services business to Electronic Data Systems for $63.5 million in cash.
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William "Bill" V. Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc., and a board director at Apple, Inc. He formerly worked... for Apple Inc. , Claris , and GO Corporation . Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University where he played football under coach Buff Donelli from 1959 to 1961. His senior year he was named to the All-Ivy Team. He graduated in 1962 with a bachelor in economics. He also obtained a master's degree from Columbia. He was head coach of Columbia's football team, the Columbia Lions from 1974 to 1979. Prior to this he was an assistant at Boston College for six years. He met his wife, the former Roberta Spagnola, while she was the assistant dean in charge of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories. He joined J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency, then Kodak where he rose to run Kodak's European film business. Hired by John Sculley he became Apple's VP of Marketing, then ran Apple's Claris software division.
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Mr. Simon M. Lorne is the Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer at Millennium Management, L.L.C. He joined in the firm in 2004. Lorne oversees the... firm´s compliance, legal and regulatory functions, along with internal audit. He has been a partner in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, which he rejoined in 1999 after originally becoming a partner in 1972. In 1996, became a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers where he served as Global Head of Internal Audit. Following the merger of Salomon Brothers into Travelers Group Inc., he continued as Managing Director and as a senior member of the General Counsel´s office. With the merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp Inc., he organized and coordinated the global compliance function of Citigroup. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Lorne was General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Michael S. Ovitz is an American talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later... served as President of the Walt Disney Company from October 1995 to January 1997. Ovitz was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a liquor wholesaler. Raised in Encino, California, he attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, a classmate of Sally Field. While a premed student at UCLA, he began his entertainment career as a part-time tour guide at Universal Studios. Upon graduation from UCLA in 1968 with a degree in theater, film, and television, he secured a job in the mail room at the William Morris Agency. Within a year he was promoted, becoming a highly successful television agent. Six years later he and four other young colleagues left William Morris to found Creative Artists Agency. Ovitz founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 along with fellow William Morris Agents Ron Meyer, Bill Haber, Rowland Perkins, and Mike Rosenfeld. Borrowing only $21,000 from a bank, the agents rented a small office, conducting business on card tables and rented chairs, their wives taking turns as agency receptionist.
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